US firm run by Indian-Americans receives threatening calls

An accounting firm run by five Indian-Americans here has received anonymous threatening phone calls accusing them of being members of a 'white supremacist hate group.'
The firm K K Mehta, founded in 1978 and based in Garden City, specialises in the hospitality and medical industries and said it got calls accusing it of being a member of the Ku Klux Klan group, the Washington Post reported.
A partner at the firm said the office number for his firm, run by five partners of Indian descent, was on a list of numbers and e-mails associated with Anonymous' widely-hyped "leak" of Ku Klux Klan members.

"We don't know anything about these people. We have nothing to do with all of this. It is a matter of concern when you have so many threatening phone calls and some of them are local," the partner was quoted as saying by the Post.
The firm has expressed concern that the threats against them will escalate and the partners fear for their safety, the report said.
The report said the accounting firm's main office line was one of several phone numbers contained in a file that some Anonymous-associated Twitter accounts initially claimed was part of a promised leak of as many as 1,000 phone numbers and e-mails of members of the Ku Klux Klan.

The Ku Klux Klan is the name of three distinct past and present movements in the US that have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism and anti-immigration.
The partner at the firm said he has no clue how thefirm ended up on the list - he said he'd be surprised if someone had added its phone number to some sort of KKK database as a malicious prank - but guessed that it might have something to do with the double K's at the start of the firm's name.
The accounting firm said it wants to go back to their work without being interrupted by another round of threats.